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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Andre—nice summary! These are the issues that we run into when trying to adapt FT8/FT4 QSOs to the WIQP. I suspect that in the near future there may be some software changes where the modes may be easily integrated into more contests.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Have a great time this weekend and hope to hear you on the air!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>73, Chuck--W9WLX<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>WIQP Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> WIQP-Mail <wiqp-mail-bounces@warac.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andre Robitaille via WIQP-Mail<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 11, 2021 10:24 AM<br><b>To:</b> Wisconsin QSO Party Reflector <wiqp-mail@warac.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Andre Robitaille <wt9x@icloud.com>; Jim Borowski <jim.gmforum@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [WIQPmail] No FT8/FT4<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>That breaks a lot of logging software and DX spotting, and a handful of other things. Everything I come across expects prefixes and suffixes to be a separate callsign from your real callsign.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>FT8/4 just aren't build for auto generating messages for contests. That seems to be the only genuine reason holding it back. The whole auto-contact stuff is mostly just gatekeeping, though it's true that I can just call CQ and auto-increment and walk away to do other stuff.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Andre<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>WT9X<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On March 11, 2021 at 10:00 AM, Jim Borowski via WIQP-Mail <<a href="mailto:wiqp-mail@warac.org">wiqp-mail@warac.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Larry</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Couldn't you put in the call sign WA9YSD/MIL ?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="composer_signature"><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:#575757'>Jim K9TF<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:#575757'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:#575757'>Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><span class=body-text-content>_______________________________________________</span><br><span class=body-text-content>WIQP-Mail mailing list</span><br><span class=body-text-content><a href="mailto:WIQP-Mail@warac.org">WIQP-Mail@warac.org</a></span><br><span class=body-text-content><a href="http://mail.warac.org/mailman/listinfo/wiqp-mail_warac.org">http://mail.warac.org/mailman/listinfo/wiqp-mail_warac.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>